When did board games 'click' for you?
When did board games 'click' for you?
Has it been a consistent hobby since childhood or was there a single game, a mechanism, theme or social situation which hooked you in?
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I'd always liked board games, but the wife and I never had anything beyond the 'classics', which were fun but kind of been there done that sort of vibe. Then one day a couple years ago we went down to our friend's house and they showed us Unstable Unicorns, Dixit, and Munchkin and our minds were blown. We immediately started buying the games we'd played and a couple more that had cool art and as we played more with friends and by ourselves we kept buying more and more, even being able to show our friends games they hadn't heard of. And now we have too many 🤣
Tell me about it, they're so hard to resist, especially when you've got a gaming partner. I love the nature themes like Meadow, Wingspan, etc.
I took Cascadia over to a mate's, who expected something like monopoly, and he was blown away.
Playing Wingspan as we speak!! I was a huge bird nut growing up so that one was an instant pickup when I heard about it. I still even have a box of a ton of bird statues and pictures in storage.
I've been meaning to check out Cascadia, and I'll have to add Meadow to the list of potentials as well. Parks is another pretty fun nature one that we have, really cool art.
I do really enjoy Wingspan now, the artwork and production quality is a huge appeal, I also use the Wingsong app when my son's around, as he enjoys hearing the birds.
I love Cascadia, it's not deep and I feel I've maxed out my strategy, but it's such a pleasure to play, especially with non gamers.
I was looking at Parks last week, do you have either expansion? Was hoping for a big box, but there aren't any plans.
We do have one of the parks expansions (can't remember which one) but we still haven't had the chance to try it out.